Sam
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
Sam knew there was an ban on Ascendeds in the Greatwood and he did want to respect that. So he would! In a way, sort of.
He had gone to the effort of completing all parts of the event so far, so he felt it would be an unsatisfying ending to not attend the gathering, which marked the end of the season as well as the task of Capturing the Sun. However, he did not have to attend it in any way that anyone would notice, except perhaps his giftees: before he had taken one step in the forest he had made himself invisible, hoping to escape notice.
Reaching the festival he sat on a low branch of a tree and watched, hoping he could go mostly unseen from the higher vantage point and away from the main throng of party goers, holding his little bundles of dried flowers in his hands until those he wanted to give them to appeared - Remi's bundle he had burned the night before, thinking it a gift of sorts to his memories of the man.
